Jessica Ritz

Ask where to get knives sharpened, especially during this time of year when optimal equipment is essential for taking on holiday fowl and hams, and chances are you'll hear the same name from committed steel blade owners across Los Angeles: Ross. Just because a business like Ross Cutlery has been......

A quest to win over the hearts, minds and palates of young Angelenos? Maybe so. In collaboration with the Garden School Foundation and its new Kickstarter campaign to publish a guide to garden-based learning, chef Michael Voltaggio (ink., ink.sack.) will pitch in at the GSF's next community workday at the......

If there was ever a moment in which L.A.'s community of small-scale artisanal food and coffee makers located east of Vermont spontaneously coalesced, it would be hard to rival the soft opening at Sqirl café featuring G&B coffee service this morning. If someone looked vaguely familiar, odds were strong that......

Embracing the renaissance of the specialty neighborhood food shop means accepting some inconvenience. You're there for say, a jar of jam and a wedge of cheese. There might be bread, there might not be. It could depend on the amount of limited shelf space, or it might vary day to......

Even the most experienced restaurateurs still listen to friends' advice. Such is the case with Andre Guerrero and his plans to expand The Oinkster brand to a second location, which will occupy the former Sushi Hiroba on Vine Street between Melrose and Santa Monica Blvd. "A friend of mine pointed......

Andre Guerrero can't imagine living anywhere other than Los Angeles. Save for his earliest years in the Philippines and a couple spent in San Francisco when his family initially moved to the United States, Guerrero has essentially been a lifelong L.A. resident. Over the course of a 30-plus-year career as......

Revisiting the french fry, which we have already exhaustively sampled in the past, is a particular beast. The ongoing casualization of restaurants means straightforward, beloved classics are the order of the day in a greater number of places than was the case just a couple years ago. So on top......

Of all restaurant genres worth revisiting, the coffee shop ranks high. And it's one that Los Angeles, for better or for worse, particularly excels at updating. The Beachwood Café, formerly known as the Village Coffee Shop when it shuttered last year, has joined the ranks of the nouveau diner. This......

Blue Cow, the latest project from an expanded team behind the string of Mendocino Farms sandwich shops, opened Feb. 13, bringing a brimming kitchen agenda to California Plaza. Leave it to a restaurant that comes bundled with a suite of sustainable/locavore/farm-to-table values, and an interior full of nods to California......

Downtown Los Angeles continually witnesses its fair share of change and reinvention. So it's no surprise that one of its fine dining stalwarts, where notable chefs have developed careers and power brokers wheeled and dealed through many a seafood and martini-fueled lunch, is in the middle of a top-to-bottom renovation......